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Universal Design, Accommodations and Differentiation: an SCCEC Preconference Event
When: February 25, 2010
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Location:
Myrtle Beach Convention Center
2101 North Oak Street
Myrtle Beach, SC 29578
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Workshop Fee: $50
Instructor: Dr. Patrick Schwarz,
Creative Culture Consulting LLC
Description: Universal design is having curriculum planning, strategy and materials in place in advance to meet the needs of all learners. Accommodations are technology, materials, sequences and procedures to help a learner be successful in the classroom. Differentiation is when all of these strategies are applied to the instruction for all learners in the classroom. In this session, planning processes and examples will be provided and applied to participants’ classroom, teaching and learning situations.
Objectives:
- Participants will define universal design, accommodations and differentiation and identify specific examples and uses in schools.
- Participants will describe a planning process to support learners with universal design, accommodations and differentiation.
- Participants will generate their own examples of universal design, accommodations and differentiation and share ideas with others.
This is a preconference event for the SCCEC Professional Development Conference at Myrtle Beach Convention Center. Registration for this event is separate from the SCCEC Conference, and full conference registration is not required to attend our session.
Target Audience: Everyone is welcome. This workshop is designed for parents and professionals.
Registration: Register for this workshop on the SC Autism Society site
SCAS Cancellation Policy: Cancellation fees apply for any workshop/conference with a registration fee. Cancellations two weeks prior to any event date will be assessed a $10 fee for $25 workshops or a $20 fee for $75 or higher events. No refunds can be issued two weeks prior to a scheduled workshop/conference.
Note: This is an SCCEC Preconference Event. Please visit South Carolina Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) for conference registration.
About the Instructor: Dr. Patrick Schwarz is a dynamic and engaging professor, author, motivational speaker and leader in Education (Inclusive Education, Special Education, General Education and Educational Leadership) and Human Services. Patrick’s company is Creative Culture Consulting LLC. Dr Schwarz is a Professor of Diversity in Learning and Teaching Department at National-Louis University in Chicago. For a complete professional vita, please visit www.patrickschwarz.com.
North Carolina Augmentative Communication Association (NCACA) 27th Annual Convention:
"AAC: Across the Lifespan"
When:
February 25 and 26th, 2010
Location:
Raleigh Marriott City Center, Raleigh, NC
Agenda:
February 25 – Caroline Musselwhite, Keynote speaker -
"Communication Circles - Super Support for People who use AAC"
February 26 – Variety of presentations
(See the NCACA website for more information)
Target Audience: This conference is designed for speech/language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, psychologists, educators, para-professionals, families, and consumers interested in increasing their knowledge of AAC and assistive technology.
Registration: E-mail Jessica Yeganian or see the online event information.
Download an application to join the Conference from the NCACA website. Scholarships are available for families and consumers
ATWorkshops
ATworkshops provides CEU-based continuing education opportunities for SLP's, Special Educators, OT's, PT's, and other professionals interested in assistive technology and special needs. Workshops are offered as contracted workshops to school districts and other agencies throughout the United States as well as open-enrollment workshops sponsored by ATworkshops itself. Contact ATworkshops for a to-the-penny workshop quote for your school district or agency.
ATworkshops specializes in workshops on Boardmaker/Boardmaker Plus, Classroom Suite, IntelliKeys USB Keyboard/Overlay Maker 3 as well as many other topics.
ATWorkshops is offering several workshops in 2010 at the Community House in Morganton, NC. Space is very limited for the lab-based workshops (Boardmaker/Boardmaker Plus and IntelliTools Classroom Suite) so register soon!
Creating Custom Communication and Special Needs Software Activities
When: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Location: The Community House, 120 North King Street, Morganton, NC 28655
Workshop Fee:
$99.00 Standard Rate received by January 20, 2010
$139.00 Late Rate received after January 20, 2010
Approved For: 0.6 ASHA CEU
Note: This program is offered for 0.6 ASHA CEU’s, Intermediate Level; Professional Area. This lab-based workshop provides 6 Professional development hours for teachers and other professionals. Please check with your school district for acceptance of these continuing education hours.
Target Audience: This workshop is designed for Speech Language Pathologist’s, Special Educators, Occupational Therapist’s, Physical Therapist’s, other professionals, and parents interested in assistive technology.
Presenter: Ken Whitley is President of ATworkshops and President of Key Technologies, Inc. Ken is a SLP and Consultant in assistive technology/special needs and has extensive experience in serving special needs students and adults with disabilites. He has worked in both schools and a residential facility for persons with developmental disabilities and has provided over 289 workshops and presentations on topics including literacy materials for struggling students, the use of special needs materials, and the use of assistive technology.
Description: Students respond to activities they relate to. “Off-the-shelf” software often lacks personalized content that motivate students with special needs. In the past traditional “authoring” programs have been employed in an attempt to create custom activities for students with special needs with mixed results. Traditional “authoring programs proved to be cumbersome, difficult for professionals and families to learn and use, and lacking in features designed specifically for use in the special needs environment.
This workshop examines the need for, capabilities and use of software specifically designed to create custom activities for students with special needs. Such software may be employed to create custom Cause & Effect, Basic Concept, Choice Making, Language Development, Augmentative Communication, Literacy, Recreational activities, and more. These software programs permit the use of your own graphics, video, recordings, and style. All are designed for ease in learning as well as ease of use by both professionals and families. Special needs activity creation programs to be discussed and demonstrated include Switch-It! Maker 2, Choose-It! Maker 2, Boardmaker Plus, My Own Bookshelf, MyBoard, IntelliTools Classroom Suite, and more.
Registration: To register, go to the ATWorkshops site and download the information for the workshop, including directions for registration and a timeline of activities.
Boardmaker & Boardmaker Plus: Communication & Educational Applications – A Lab-Based Workshop
When: Friday, March 5, 2010
Location: The Community House, 120 North King Street, Morganton, NC 28655
Workshop Fee:
$145.00 Standard Rate received by February 26, 2010
$195.00 Late Rate received after February 26, 2010
Approved For: 0.6 ASHA CEU
Participants must bring a notebook computer
AHSA Note: This program is offered for 0.6 ASHA CEU’s, Intermediate Level; Professional Area. This lab-based workshop provides 6 Professional development hours for teachers and other professionals. Please check with your school district for acceptance of these continuing education hours.
Target Audience: Space is very limited, please register early! A minimum of 25 is required and a maximum of 40 is permitted. This workshop is designed for SLP’s, Special Educators, OT’s, PT’s, other professionals, and parents interested in assistive technology.
Presenter: Ken Whitley is President of ATWorkshops and President of Key Technologies, Inc. Ken is a SLP and Consultant in assistive technology/special needs and has extensive experience in serving special needs students and adults with disabilites. He has worked in both schools and a residential facility for persons with developmental disabilities and has provided over 289 workshops and presentations on topics including literacy materials for struggling students, the use of special needs materials, and the use of assistive technology.
Description: Boardmaker is recognized as the premier communication overlay design and printing program available. Thousands of teachers, speech/language pathologists, other professionals and families use Boardmaker everyday as an important tool in serving students with special needs. Not merely a tool to print communication boards, Boardmaker is also used to produce materials used to support academics and daily living activities.
Boardmaker Plus is an enhanced Boardmaker that allows communication boards (normally simply printed) to become onscreen talking boards which are accessible through a dynamic display process. This is a great teaching tool as well as a cost effective means of introducing picture-based dynamic display augmentative communication to nonspeaking students. Boardmaker Plus is also used to create onscreen talking educational activities as well as used in language development.
This 1-day lab-based workshop covers Boardmaker and Boardmaker Plus. This is a hands-on workshop in which each participant will work at their own notebook computer with one of these programs. Participants will learn what these tools are and how to design, create, and print manual communication boards, schedules and instructional sequences using Boardmaker. Using Boardmaker Plus participants will learn how to turn their silent communication boards into dynamic onscreen talking boards as well as create educational activities.
Registration: To register, go to the ATWorkshops site and download the information for the workshop, including directions for registration and a timeline of activities.
IntelliTools Classroom Suite Version 4 (ICS4): Communication and Early Learning – A Lab-Based Workshop
When: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 and Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Location: The Community House, 120 North King Street, Morganton, NC 28655
Workshop Fee:
$235.00 – Standard Rate received by September 14, 2010
$285.00 – Late Rate received after September 14, 2010
Approved For: 1.3 hrs. ASHA CEU
Please Note: Participants must bring a notebook computer!
ASHA Note: This program is offered for 1.3 CEUs, Intermediate Level; Professional Area. This lab-based workshop provides 13.0 professional development hours for teachers and other professionals. Please check with your school district for acceptance of these continuing education hours.
Target Audience: Space is very limited, please register early! A minimum of 25 is required and a maximum of 40 is permitted. SLP’s, Special Educators, OT’s, PT’s, other professionals, and parents interested in assistive technology.
Presenter: Kenneth P. Whitley, MA, CCC-Sp.– President ATWorkshops, Inc. & Key Technologies, Inc. Ken Whitley is a Speech-Language Pathologist with over 33 years experience, predominantly in the fields of assistive technology (particularly augmentative communication, computer access, special needs software, and simple environmental control) and literacy intervention with struggling readers and writers. His clinical experience includes work as an SLP in the public schools and a residential center for developmentally delayed persons, as well a consultant in assistive technology. Mr. Whitley has provided over 285 workshops and presentations during his career.
Description: IntelliTools Classroom Suite Version 4 (ICS4) is changing how special needs students are taught! Featuring Creativity, Reading/Writing and Math tools it also includes a classroom management tool which simplifies student customizations, provides the ability to assign activities/quizzes, and more! This is a practical two-day, lab-based workshop which will examine ICS4 and many of its capabilities. Participants will have ample time, with instruction and support, to create from scratch a number of custom activities covering early learning, language development, augmentative communication, emerging literacy, and early math.
Registration: To register, go to the ATWorkshops site and download the information for the workshop, including directions for registration and a timeline of activities.
SC Access
Aging and Disability Information Community Calendar
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) will provide technology trainings to all RFB&D individual and institutional members. Contact Carolyn Donges, the RFB&D SC Outreach Director, if you would like a training on RFB&D AudioPlus books and equipment. Contact information: cdonges@rfbdruvc.lorg or 803-238-3031.
Trainings by Vendors
CREATE Training Schedule 2009
All trainings held at Dunamis unless otherwise indicated. Dunamis is located in Lawrenceville, GA
Key Technologies Training Institute
Literacy, special needs materials, assistive technology, and professional training.
Toll Free: 888-433-5303
AT Workshops
Continuing education opportunities for SLP's, Special Educators, OT's, PT's, and other professionals interested in assistive technology and special needs.
Morganton, NC